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<br />;GO <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JULY 10, 1979 <br /> <br />In its review and consideration of the Comprehensive Plan it was <br />necessary, of course, to make revisions not only on the Proposed <br />Land Use Map but throughout the reading matter in the booklet <br />entitled "Comprehensive Plan" of which the map is a part. <br /> <br />The Commission respectfully submits the plan and recommendation <br />for its adoption for Council's further consideration. <br /> <br />In addition, Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown elaborated on <br /> <br />the planes), supported by a map, pointing out that two tracts of developable property, <br /> <br />originally classified as IIresidential" many years ago but inadvertently and subsequently <br /> <br />designated otherwise, have been correctly classified as "residential" in the proposed <br /> <br />plan updating, these being a tract at the end of Lanier Road and a tract on the north side <br /> <br />of Mulberry Road, generally opposite its intersection with Valleyview Drive (and/or Lanier <br /> <br />Road). Planning Commission Chairman James H. Ford also pointed out that the Commission's recommended <br /> <br />updating constitutes a broad guide for future usage, meanwhile noting that changing conditions <br /> <br />would require an on-going process of review. Mr. Junius P. Warren, Attorney at Law and <br /> <br />Counsel for a number of concerned citizens, relayed his clients' concern with those areas now <br /> <br />designated "Permanent Open Space" but formerly identified as "Open Space Transitional", <br /> <br />indicating that his clients and other property owners desire assurance that such areas, i.e., <br /> <br />owned by Lanier Farm and popularly called IIPark Areas", will not be developed, to which <br /> <br />Planning Commission Chairman Ford replied that, because of changing conditions, there can be <br /> <br />no guarantee that such areas will remain "Permanent Open Space" although there rests upon a <br /> <br />developer the burden to prove that further change will be in the best interest of all citizens. <br /> <br />Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted said recommended and <br /> <br />updated planes), with the understanding that a clarification and/or revision of the reference <br /> <br />on page 38 (of the proposed plan), pertaining to parking meters, will be made. <br /> <br />At the request of the Blue Ridge Regional Library, through its Director, Mrs. Betty M. <br /> <br />Ragsdale, Council went on record as supporting the concept of "Full Funding" of public <br /> <br />libraries by the Commonwealth of Virginia, i.e., that the level of actual State support <br />